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Sat, 14 Sep 2019 11:20:38 GMTI'm a sucker for a survival game. Spent a long time in Long Dark, Subnautica was amazing and worth it, so when I saw Green Hell, I was keen. Here's my experiences so far.

You sit through the the tutorial/intro story gameplay, which involves a bunch of Firewatch-esque radio conversations from earnest young Silicon Valley "voice actors" (aka the devs mates) and then you freak out at... something during the night, I wasn't paying attention tbh, and falloff a waterfall, and wake up here.

So you have to "find help", so I followed a stream, I fell off a log, and decided to take the straightforward route up.

Very beautiful, and everything wants to kill you.

Here's my playthrough history so far.

First death - picked up a poison dart frog, died of... poison. I don't know what I was expecting.
Second death - minding my own business, wandering around the jungle, bitten by a snake, died of poison.
Third death - I have no idea, my energy dropped to zero and I died in a dirty stream. Malnutrition?

Speaking of nutrition, this game takes a... ...more in-depth approach to food - you need to eat a balanced diet of proteins, fats and carbs. Fruits are are great for carbs, you want a nut for the fats, and as for protein? Well...

There's also fish and animals you can hunt but I'm not at that level yet, although I did eat a (raw) piece of a dead parrot that I found once.

The water... ...the ****ing water man... so I'm very early into the story mode, and every time I drink water, I get parasites, because apparently the Amazon is filthy AF, which tbh, given all the animals crapping in there, I believe. I'm not yet at the point where I can boil water, so I drink the dirty water and thank God I ate a random mushroom and found out it removed parasites. So every time I see those little orange mushies, I harvest them like crazy.

So far, none of the harvesting has felt unnecessary. And, unlike other survival games, Green Hell only highlights some of the items you can pick up - you know, press E to pick up the stone. For a lot of common stuff, it does that. But for the more advanced herbals, that you will definitely need, you're given a picture, then need to identify the plant in the jungle and hack at it until harvested, no tooltips, no highlighting.

Oh, and this is the first game I've ever played where I could check my limbs for wounds and/or leeches (did I mention the rivers are filthy?)

Anyway, I'm enjoying the survival gameplay of it so far, the story, tbh, feels like a bunch of privileged college kids wrote it. You and your gf go to talk to some natives because they have the answer to <bad thing X> or something, then you freak out, fall off waterfall, and apparently the next step is to craft an ayahuasca trip to regain your memory. Serious.

But, crafting that ayahuasca trip makes full use of the "learn the plants nub" gameplay - you find ayahuasca because it's a twisted vine that grows on the largest trees - so you wander around looking for twisty vines on big trees. Then you add some other plants that you identify by flower and leaves.

Apparently, anyway, because I've never got that far. Shit keeps biting me, or I touch it, like a jackass.

I would recommend, although I think I'm going to tweak the difficulty a bit before the next playthrough, because the "macronutrient" thing feels like you burn through your entire fat store in one day, and tbh, no-one has that much time to go searching for nuts.
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Sat, 14 Sep 2019 00:18:00 GMTHi.
I have a friend coming in from elsewhere and we have a weekend of Borderlands 3 Co-OP planned for Xbox next weekend. He will borrow my spare...Hi.

I have a friend coming in from elsewhere and we have a weekend of Borderlands 3 Co-OP planned for Xbox next weekend. He will borrow my spare xbox one, and I just wanted to see if I could get a cheapy Xbox Live Membership.
If anyone has one spare they are willing to part with cheap or free (I gave away the ones I got with my xboxes and other promotions free as I had 3 years of gold queued up) please pm me.
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Thu, 12 Sep 2019 18:39:34 GMTplease PM me it would be a huge help
On PC I forgot to specifyplease PM me it would be a huge help

On PC I forgot to specify
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